A92141:1491
Influences of the life of grace
Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickening influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickning influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of St. Andrews in Scotland.
London: printed by T.C. for Andrew Crook, 1659
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Obj. A free cause hath more liberty not to act, or to act, then the Sun hath to give light, and the fire to give heat: Therefore the Lord must have given to free-will a power of nilling and willing, and must tie his influences to await and be ready, concur or not concur, as free-will shall think fit.
Obj. A free cause hath more liberty not to act, or to act, then the Sunne hath to give light, and the fire to give heat: Therefore the Lord must have given to free-will a power of nilling and willing, and must tie his influences to await and be ready, concur or not concur, as free-will shall think fit.
Answ. The free will of Angels or men hath no more freedom and exemption from the dominion of providence, then the Sun or the fire hath, but all causes natural or free, are equally under the Lords dominion.
Answ. The free will of Angels or men hath no more freedome and exemption from the dominion of providence, then the Sun or the fire hath, but all causes natural or free, are equally under the Lords dominion.
2. Free will hath no more a dominion over the Lords dominion and his influences, that are given out, or withdrawn according to this sovereign dominion, then the Sun or the pismire. Yea free-will is under his dominion, and also Prov. 21. 1. all the free actings of the creature, as well as the necessary actings of Sun and fire, as is proved. Free-will hath indeed a more dominion over its own acts, being a rational and free agent, then the Sun over its acts.
2. Free will hath no more a dominion over the Lords dominion and his influences, that are given out, or withdrawn according to this soveraign dominion, then the Sun or the pismire. Yea free-wil is under his dominion, and also